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If voters in Burnside, Wisconsin, want to drop off their absentee ballot before an election, they have to go several miles outside of town, down a hilly, rural county road that requires four-wheel-drive most of the year, and to the doorway or mailbox of Melissa Kono’s house. Kono is the part-time clerk for Burnside, a 500-person town in the western part of the state. She mostly works from home, since Burnside’s town hall does not have internet service. Ideally, she said, there would be a ballot drop box at the town hall, which is conveniently located along a major highway. A drop box would also give absentee voters another alternative to mailing ballots, which can be slow in rural Wisconsin, Kono said. Alexander Shur, Votebeat
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